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Iconic auteur Werner Herzog is divulging his best advice for aspiring filmmakers: Go and get some real world experience, the more bizarre the better.

Herzog, who hosts an 11-day workshop that he deemed a “film school for rogues,” told CBS that he encourages attendees to work in sex clubs or “lunatic asylums” to fund their features.

“For the rogues, I also say, ‘You are able-bodied. Earn money to finance your first films. But don’t earn it with clerical works in an office,'” Herzog said. “‘Go out and work as a bouncer in a sex club. Work as a warden in a lunatic asylum. Go out to a cattle ranch and learn how to milk a cow. Earn your money that way, in real life.'”

He added, “You do not become a poet by being in a college. […] You have to go outside of what the norm is.

When Roger Eggers' Nosferatu was released in late 2024, it wasn't the first time that the story of Count Orlok appeared on screen. He most famously first appeared in 1922, with Max Schreck giving one of the most terrifying performances in the history of horror. Over half a century later, in 1979, the story was adapted again for Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre, starring Klaus Kinski. He was then seen again very recently in 2023's Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror, with Doug Jones as the vampire. In each of these three films, Count Orlok looked nearly the same with his pale skin, bald head, pointy ears, and rat-like teeth. For Eggers' version of Nosferatu, Bill Skarsgård's Orlok is the exact opposite of everything we've seen before. This is no tribute to the past, but a terrifying and unforgettable new creation.

Werner Herzog confirms the extreme lengths he went to in order to afford operations on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Herzog's 1972 jungle adventure film tells the story of a ruthless and ambitious explorer named Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) who leads Spain on a search for El Dorado. In addition to Kinski, the movie featured a leading cast including Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Peter Berling, and Cecilia Rivera.Though Aguirre, the Wrath of God is regarded as one of Herzog's most important films, the on-set experience was not without its problems.

Speaking with 60 Minutes, Herzog elaborates on his fraught experience on the Aguirre, the Wrath of God set. Interviewer Anderson Cooper discusses that he had heard the director "sold [his] shoes in order to get some fish to feed the crew." Herzog confirms this to be true, and notes that he would trade things...

British actor Tim Roth drew a big crowd and much applause with a masterclass at the 15th edition of the Luxembourg City Film Festival (LuxFilmFest) last week, in which he discussed such topics as his work with Tupac Shakur, Quentin Tarantino and Werner Herzog and how he prepared for his first TV role as a racist skinhead.

He was one of the big names attending the anniversary edition of the fest, along with the star-studded jury, which was led by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and also included Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (The Girl With the Needle, Poison), Austrian actress Valerie Pachner (Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, A Hidden Life), L.A.- and Luxembourg-based VFX expert Jeff Desom (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Spanish director Albert Serra (Afternoons of Solitude), and screenwriter Paul Laverty. The festival has also featured a masterclass by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar.

As part of his busy Luxembourg schedule,...

What is the role that first comes to mind when you think of Tim Roth? Is it the clumsy bellboy from Four Rooms? The wailing criminal who gets shot in Reservoir Dogs? Or is it the psychology wiz in Lie to Me? The excellent British actor has played a litany of noteworthy characters, but top among them is not likely to be his role in Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes. Regardless, his performance as General Thade gave him the opportunity to appear on-screen with Charlton Heston, a truly bittersweet experience considering it featured the controversial actor in one of his last roles.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Roth was at the 15th edition of the Luxembourg City Film Festival this week, where he offered a masterclass and also presented his latest feature film, Poison, a romantic drama he co-stars with Trine Dyrholm. The actor, who rose to...

Giacomo Gex’s “The Treasure Hunter,” which had its world premiere this week in the Newcomers Competition at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, follows the director’s best friend, Jack, as he searches for treasure in the Philippines. It’s a tale reminiscent of Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo.” Variety debuts the trailer here.

According to local legend, during World War II the Japanese Army took booty they had looted from across South-East Asia to the Philippines and buried it at various locations. Jack, funded by his father, decided to join the many treasure hunters on the archipelago. “The Treasure Hunter” follows Jack as he plows millions of dollars into this quixotic search, digging at various sites, based on local rumors.

Although many of the scenes in the jungle were shot underground in caves and in shafts dug in the hope they would lead to caves, Gex didn’t suffer from claustrophobia. The dangers were real enough,...

This Sunday at 6:00 Pm, CBS presents a new episode of “60 Minutes,” the iconic newsmagazine that dives deep into the stories that shape the world. Each week, this program takes viewers behind the headlines, revealing the people and events that make news. With its trademark investigative journalism, “60 Minutes” continues to be a trusted source for insightful reporting.

Under The Radar – With news of mysterious drones flying over New Jersey and concerns about spying, this week’s 60 Minutes investigates a surprising story about another drone incursion. Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports what happened 15 months ago over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, which houses nearly half of the most advanced U.S. stealth fighter jets, the F-22 Raptor, and how it is part of a series of brazen overflights of sensitive military sites. Graham Messick is the producer.

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This Sunday, March 16, 2025, from 7:00 to 8:00 Pm Et/Pt, 60 Minutes brings you three compelling reports that delve into surprising stories, from military incursions to cultural controversies, and the world of cinema.

Under the Radar

In the first segment, correspondent Bill Whitaker investigates the mysterious presence of drones flying over sensitive U.S. military sites. Following a series of drone incursions, including one 15 months ago over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia—which houses nearly half of the U.S. fleet of advanced F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets—60 Minutes explores the increasing concern over these brazen overflights. What is the motive behind these mysterious drone activities, and how are authorities responding? This segment is produced by Graham Messick.

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In the second segment, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on a controversial incident in which the U.S. Marine Band...

Perhaps the most consistent human reaction to suffering is indifference, and, in a paradoxically twisted way, that's kind of a consequence of empathy. Call it "pain-responsive apathy," if you will. The more we learn about and engage with a painful tragedy or a cruel condition, the more it affects us and the guiltier we feel. That's why most people would rather donate money from a distance than get physically involved; it's less painful to write a check to a dog shelter than to see the loneliness of caged pups, many of whom are destined to die. This phenomenon can be applied more personally; it's sad and awkward to visit your grandparents in a nursing home or talk to a truly depressed friend. The new film Reeling intimately explores this tendency, evoking pain-responsive apathy in a way that makes the audience feel the same as the uncomfortable characters on screen.

Reeling,...

Meetings of fascists, young skinheads, Elvis, experiences with such legendary directors as David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino and Werner Herzog, and the media circus around Oscar nominees — those were just some of the topics addressed by British actor Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Rob Roy, Lie to Me) during a master class at the 15th edition of the Luxembourg City Film Festival on Wednesday.

The crowded session followed Tuesday night’s Luxembourg premiere of independent movie Poison, directed by Désirée Nosbusch (Bad Banks), in which Roth stars opposite Danish actress Trine Dyrholm as a couple that meets again years after tragedy drove them apart. Roth also received a festival honor Tuesday evening.

In his wide-ranging master class, he also discussed working with the likes of Charlton Heston, and, to the surprise of some in the audience, Tupac Shakur.

And he shared insight into how he portrayed a 16-year-old racist skinhead...

“Reeling” opens with a long, ominous one-shot in which the familiar experience of returning home takes on a strange, uncanny hue. Ryan (Ryan Wuestewald) arrives at his family’s Oahu estate, after an unspecified time away. As the camera trails behind him and he walks the ground of the homestead, he encounters a parade of family friends who greet him warmly, and who he looks at almost like they’re aliens. Even his siblings, Meg (Nikki DeParis) and John (Hans Christopher), are treated with initial hesitation before they (re)introduce themselves. As a quiet panic becomes obvious in Ryan’s eyes, the happy return begins to feel like a nightmare.

Executive-produced by Werner Herzog, whose influence can be felt in the film’s mix of improv and scripted scenes, “Reeling” frequently pauses the narrative to observe the young, attractive party at the celebratory luau Meg throws for her birthday, as they play volleyball,...

Exclusive: Producer Andrea Bucko (Alpha Gang) and actress Jordan Claire Robbins (The Umbrella Academy) have officially launched film and TV development fund, finance company, and production banner Raised by Wolves.

Backed by private investments from multiple family offices, the label has already quietly invested equity in high-profile independent films including Alpha Gang, starring Cate Blanchett, Channing Tatum, Dave Bautista, Steven Yeun, Zoë Kravitz, Léa Seydoux and Riley Keough; Captivated, starring Al Pacino and Katie Holmes; and Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire starring Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino, and Colman Domingo, which recently wrapped principal photography.

Along with investing through Raised by Wolves, Bucko has also produced these films under her Sugar Rush Pictures company. Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard with Rooney and Kate Mara is also produced under that banner.

Producer Nini Le Huynh, former assistant to Robin Wright, will serve as creative executive for the new company,...

Shorts filmmaker Yana Alliata, who has worked in various film industry jobs makes her feature debut in Reeling, a dark Hawaii-set drama that’s executive produced by Werner Herzog and deals with trauma, memory and the implicit horror of family gatherings. The movie begins with a long, gliding steadicam shot of Ryan (Ryan Wuestewald) entering his family’s ranch-style Hawaii home, where the clan is gathered for a Lu-au that’s also something of a memorial for the their late patriarch. The family is welcoming, but Ryan, beneath the forced smiles, signals fight-or-flight mode, a mental […]

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Shorts filmmaker Yana Alliata, who has worked in various film industry jobs makes her feature debut in Reeling, a dark Hawaii-set drama that’s executive produced by Werner Herzog and deals with trauma, memory and the implicit horror of family gatherings. The movie begins with a long, gliding steadicam shot of Ryan (Ryan Wuestewald) entering his family’s ranch-style Hawaii home, where the clan is gathered for a Lu-au that’s also something of a memorial for the their late patriarch. The family is welcoming, but Ryan, beneath the forced smiles, signals fight-or-flight mode, a mental […]

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The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival is underway in the Greek port city, a gathering point for some of the biggest names in nonfiction filmmaking – and young talents eager to join those ranks.

The festival opened Thursday night with About a Hero, directed by Piotr Winiewicz and “narrated by Werner Herzog”.

If that characterization of About a Hero sounds unnecessarily opaque, consider that TiDF is paying not just heed but tribute to Artificial Intelligence at this year’s festival. “AI, an Inevitable Intelligence” as the theme has been dubbed, “invites the audience to embark on a fascinating journey that includes a selection of eye-opening documentaries, an impressive visual installation, a masterclass, a special two-language edition, as well as the Festival’s magazine First Shot,...

The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TiDF) returns from March 6-16, presenting 261 films, including 72 world premieres. This year’s edition unfolds in a turbulent global climate, where political shifts and technological advancements raise urgent questions about truth and representation.

A Festival Responding to the Times

Festival director Orestis Andreadakis describes the present moment as one where the foundations of truth and democracy face constant pressure. “Four months have passed since the [Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival], but it seems like we’re already living in a completely different world — unfortunately, not a better one,” he said. He points to recent events as reminders of lessons unlearned and histories repeating themselves.

The festival’s selection reflects that urgency, bringing together works that aim to document and interpret the complexities of the present. “The art of documentary tries to preserve reality. This is the most important thing in our difficult times. To realize what is truth, what is reality,...

As the Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival prepares to host its 27th edition, which runs March 6 – 16, festival director Orestis Andreadakis sees no shortage of threats to truth, freedom and the values on which the democratic order is based. “Four months have passed since the [Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival], but it seems like we’re already living in a completely different world — unfortunately, not a better one,” Andreadakis tells Variety.

Likening the times to “a historical documentary about the 1930s, screened backwards,” he describes world events as “an educational documentary that taught us nothing. It is a testimony for the horror of fascism and totalitarianism that it seems we have forgotten,” he continues. “It is a film record of a horrific historical reality that some are trying to repeat in the worst possible way.”

This year’s festival begins hardly a fortnight after Russia’s war in Ukraine marked its three-year anniversary, and as a tenuous...

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho has expressed his interest in directing a new installment to Ridley Scott’s long-running Alien franchise. Bong is no stranger to the sci-fi horror genre, after previously directing the 2006 monster movie The Host, which is currently one of Bong’s highest-rated movies to date.

During a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Bong was asked if he ever had plans to direct big-budget movies for popular franchises like Star Wars or James Bond. The South Korean filmmaker admitted that he’s not really interested in doing franchise movies. However, if given the opportunity, he would like to try to do an Alien movie. "I’m not drawn to franchise films, but I did think at one point that I would like to do an Alien film," Bong shared over Zoom through his interpreter, Sharon Choi. Interestingly, he also teased his vision for the potential project,...

Rescue Dawn was a dramatized adaptation of Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Werner Herzog's 1997 documentary. Both films depicted one prisoner of war's harrowing experience after being caught behind enemy territory.

Prime Video is now streaming Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog's 2006 epic war drama. Based on the true story of German-American pilot Dieter Dengler (played by Christian Bale), the film depicted Dengler's ordeal after being captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Herzog previously recounted Dengler's story in Little Dieter Needs to Fly, which detailed the suffering Dengler's fellow prisoners endured, including torture. These were depicted in Rescue Dawn but toned down for a PG rating. The sequences were shot in reverse order over 44 days, so Bale and his co-stars can gradually gain weight during filming.

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Werner Herzog has confirmed he is working on an animated feature adaptation of his 2021 novel The Twilight World about real-life Japanese solider Hiroo Onoda who refused to surrender for some 30 years after the end of WW2.

The German writer, producer and filmmaker is collaborating on the project with New York, L.A. and Berlin-based animation studio Psyop, in partnership with Danish-French company Sun Creature Studio, producers of the Bafta and triple Oscar-nominated film Flee.

It marks a first foray into feature animation for Oscar-nominated director Herzog after close to 80 documentary and fiction feature credits including Grizzly Man, Fitzcarraldo, and Aguirre, The Wrath of God.

Sun Creature will providing animation services for the film out of its Bordeaux-based studio, and has brokered discussions with several potential French animation directors to collaborate with Herzog on the project.

The Twilight World tells the true story of Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer who refused...

Cartoon Movie opens today in Bordeaux, France, the annual co-production and pitching event for Europe’s feature animation sector.

Backed by Creative Europe Media, the event is part of the Cartoon ecosystem that also includes the annual Cartoon Forum series event and various business development and training initiatives.

Since launching in 1999, nearly 500 films with a total budget value of €3.2billion have been pitched at and raised financing via Cartoon Movie Recent highlights includeLoving Vincent, Flee, and 2025 Oscar winner Flow.

Overseen by general manager Annick Maes, this year’s lineup includes the first animated features of Werner Herzog (The Twilight World...

Cartoon Movie opens today in Bordeaux, France, the annual co-production and pitching event for Europe’s feature animation sector.

Backed by Creative Europe Media, the event is part of the Cartoon ecosystem that also includes the annual Cartoon Forum series event and various business development and training initiatives.

Since launching in 1999, nearly 500 films with a total budget value of €3.2billion have been pitched at and raised financing via Cartoon Movie Recent highlights includeLoving Vincent, Flee, and 2025 Oscar winner Flow.

Overseen by general manager Annick Maes, this year’s lineup includes the first animated features of Werner Herzog (The Twilight World...

Running five minutes longer than “Wicked” — and still nearly an hour below “The Brutalist” — the “2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary” package makes for a heavy evening at the movies. Bodycam evidence of police brutality, raw survivor reactions to school shootings, a deep dive into the death penalty and so on. Shorts International’s annual round-up is essential viewing for those determined either to win their Oscar pool or to keep up with what the Academy considers the year’s best nonfiction work. But it’s not an easy watch, and though the finalists all seem “worthy” enough, one can’t help but crave a little levity.

Nothing new there. This award (which differs from the feature-length categories in that the nominees weren’t made for the big screen) often downplays formal innovation in favor of the underlying issues addressed by the finalists. That makes the first nominee, the New...

A good season of television should have a great finale, but for that finale to really pack a punch, the episode preceding it needs to put the right pieces in place and set the stage for whatever twists, turns, or resolution is about to transpire. Star Wars series are no exception. Let's dive into how well the penultimate episodes set the table for the ultimate finale feast.

Here are the 9 penultimate episodes of live-action Star Wars television ranked in how they set up their finale.

9. The Mandalorian Season Two: Chapter 15 - The Believer

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 episode The Believer with Migs Mayfeld (Bill Burr). Image Credit: Starwars.com | starwars.com

While the second season of The Mandalorian has one of the greatest finales in all of Star Wars, its penultimate episode has the least impactful set-up for the season finale of all of the series in this list.

Spanish exhibitors are calling for the government to urgently award €14.5m that had been promised to the sector in the face of a 6% decline in admissions in 2024.

Fece, the federation representing 80% of Spain’s exhibitors, said they hoped it will be paid in 2025 and that future public support is guaranteed to help the country’s cinemas emerge from the ongoing impact of the Covid pandemic.

“This aid is key to guarantee the survival of cinemas… for a sector that is essential for promoting culture and film diversity,” said Fece in a statement.

The organisation is also calling for the swift...

The worldwide debut of Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s live-action reimagining ofHow To Train Your Dragon will take place at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 2 – more than two months before it opens theatrically on June 13.

Franchise creator Dean DeBlois wrote and directed the feature, which takes place in a Viking settlement on the rugged isle of Berk. When Hiccup, son of the community’s ruler, befriends the dragon Toothless, he discovers the true nature of dragons, who have long been foes of the Vikings.

Mason Thames stars as Hiccup, and Gerard Butler reprises his voice role from the animated franchise as Chief Stoick the Vast.

Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World, the German director’s first feature animation and new projects from leading animation directors including Anca Damian,Alain Ughetto, Filip Pošivač, Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord, will be among the projects presented at European co-production and pitching event Cartoon Movie, taking place in Bordeaux, France, from March 4-6.

Additionally, Chloé Nicolay’sBrume, based on a script written by Celine Sciamma and produced by French animation powerhouseFolivari, is being showcaed as a film in development.It is a 2D coming-of-age film for children about a feisty seven-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a powerful witch.

As rebel filmmaker Werner Herzog famously beseeched budding directors: "If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab, and do it!" The point wasn't to advocate larceny, but rather to promote a DIY approach to filmmaking, finding innovative, inexpensive solutions to create art. No recent film better exemplifies this punk-rock ethos than Flow.

An international coproduction of Latvia, France, and Belgium, Flow has emerged as an unlikely Oscar contender with its dialogue-free tale of a collection of animals (centrally a cat) surviving a massive flood. While studio animated fare like Toy Story 3, Cars 2, or Tangled have seen budgets ballooning to $200 million and beyond, Flow was made for a miniscule $3.8 million. The secret to its cost-efficiency? The project was entirely crafted on Blender, a free, open-source 3D modeling software, with a team small enough to fit on a charter bus.

The...

Roger Ebert was a film critic with the unique power to convey his passion for film to the masses. His enthusiasm was not blind, however, and he held the oft-maligned horror genre to an especially high standard. This list of the ten best films from Ebert's "Greatest Movies" collection illustrates his understanding of what makes a horror film a masterpiece.

Ebert believed that a horror film should "exorcise" something for the viewer — to help the audience process dark and traumatic feelings. Beginning with the German Expressionist revolution and reaching into the gory excesses of the 1970s and '80s, this wide-ranging list of films showcases the genre at its best. The critic's clear-eyed commentary on each picture will show fans why horror cinema will never die.

German Expressionism Helped Legitimize the Horror Genre The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary (1920), dir. Robert Wiene

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Stream the haunting new adaptation, plus a never-before-seen extended version, starting Friday, Feb. 21.

I absolutely loved “Nosferatu”. It’s everything a horror remake should be - respectful of the original while making its own mark. Bill Skarsgård’s voice as Nosferatu is unreal - guttural, chilling, and completely inhuman. The whole movie is just the right kind of creepy, never leaning on cheap jump scares but instead building tension through eerie visuals, unsettling silence, and incredible performances. Few remakes actually live up to their predecessors, but this one does. And very soon, it’ll be added to my list of best Dracula movies to stream. You can stream “Nosferatu” exclusively on Peacock starting Friday, Feb. 21.

How to watch ‘Nosferatu’ When: Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. Et TV: Peacock Stream: Watch with a subscription to Peacock. From anywhere: Watch with a subscription to a Vpn. Everything you need to know...

Malian director Souleymane Cissé, the African cinema pioneer who over five decades gained prominence for works infused with deep humanism and political engagement, died on Wednesday. He was 84.

News of Cissé’s death was announced by his daughter, Mariam Cissé. “Papa died today in Bamako. We are all in shock. He dedicated all his life to his country, to cinema and to art,” she said in a statement. The cause of his death has not been specified.

Cissé, who was born in the Malian capital of Bamako and studied film in Moscow, became the first Black African filmmaker to win a prize for a feature film at Cannes in 1987 for “Yeelen” (“The Light”), his drama drawn from Kenyan folk stories about the conflict between a father and son over magic powers.

In 2023, Cissé was honored with the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Carrosse d’Or award which recognises filmmakers for their “innovative...

After working with such directors as Werner Herzog, Sidney Lumet, William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson, Jeff Nichols, and many more, Michael Shannon embarked on his directorial debut a few years ago. Eric Larue, scripted by Brett Neveu based on his play that debuted in 2022, will now finally arrive in theaters on April 4 and digitally on April 11. Ahead of the release, Magnolia Pictures has now released the first trailer for the film starring Judy Greer, Alexander Skarsgård, Alison Pill, Paul Sparks, and Tracy Letts.

Here’s the synopsis: “In Eric Larue, Janice (Greer) is coping with the fallout after her son murders three of his high school classmates. Struggling and moving through life as if in a haze, she is unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband (Skarsgård) has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her...

“The Last Showgirl” director Gia Coppola is set to be honored with the Auteur Award at the 7th annual Kodak Awards.

“Maria” cinematographer Ed Lachman will receive Kodak’s Career Achievement Award for his contributions to film. Lachman has collaborated with directors such as Todd Haynes, Robert Altman, Steven Soderbergh, Ulrich Seidl, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, and Pablo Larraín. His latest “Maria” earned him his fourth Oscar nomination. Lachman is also nominated at the ASC.

The 7th Annual Kodak Film Awards will take place at the Kodak House in Hollywood on Feb. 27 at an invitation-only event.

Other honorees include Lol Crawley, Greg Kwedar, and Ramez Silyan.

Vanessa Bendetti, head of Motion Picture and Entertainment at Kodak said, “It’s another great awards season for film and independent cinema with twenty-nine Oscar nominations for shot on film productions, including Best Picture consideration for ‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ and ‘I’m Still Here.

Just as he has done with all his previous work, Robert Eggers has transcended the modern cinematic expectations with ‘Nosferatu’ (2024), a remake of the 1922 silent classic. With the ample support of the strongest possible cast of actors, impeccable cinematography, and a darkened, realistic vision, the film retells the original story of Dracula with the dark psychological passion that Eggers is becoming a mdoern master of. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider fully focuses on substance and meaningful entertainment, against gossip and scandal, by combining entertainment, education, and philanthropy. A chilling journey into Eggers' unnerving vampire vision Remakes are often given a negative reputation due to their...

Ahead of the release of his latest film, Mickey 17, director Bong Joon-ho has provided an update on the long-awaited Parasite series for HBO, confirming that the writers "are working very hard" to get the show off the ground.

Speaking with Deadline at the premiere for his latest sci-fi film, Mickey 17, Bong addressed the long-gestating HBO series based on his Oscar-winning film Parasite, confirming that the writers "are working very hard" and that "the writing room of that show itself can be another TV show." The series was announced back in early 2020 after Bong's Parasite became a sleeper hit at the box office on its way to winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Bong was reportedly attached as an executive producer alongside Adam McKay. However, the series still doesn't have an official release window, and little is currently known about the plot.

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Fresh off its four Academy Award nominations, Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu will stream exclusively on Peacock on February 21.

Both the 132-minute theatrical cut and the 136-minute extended cut will be available on the streaming service, along with a behind-the-scenes featurette, Nosferatu: An Inside Look.

Other vampire films on Peacock include Werner Herzog‘s Nosferatu the Vampyre, Dan Curtis’ Dracula, Dracula’s Widow, Count Dracula’s Greatest Love, The Carmilla Movie, Carmilla, Stake Land, Stake Land II, and The Reflecting Skin.

A reimagination of F.W. Murnau‘s 1922 silent horror classic, Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

Bill Skarsgård stars as Count Orlok with Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her 5-skull review, “It’s so impeccably crafted, boasting production design and values rarely seen in horror like this,...

German movies of the 1970s will forever be linked with the New German Cinema movement, the auteur directors — led by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff — who shook the country out of its postwar stupor. “Papa’s Kino ist tot” (‘Papa’s cinema’s is dead’) was their motto, and they held radical new visions of what movies could do.

But alongside this art house wave, ’70s Germany also was a breeding ground for a cruder, more commercial strain of cinema, one that took inspiration from sexploitation and spaghetti Westerns, biker films and grindhouse horror and grafted it onto the zeitgeist-y themes of political upheaval and sexual liberation. The Berlinale pays tribute to this seldom-seen oeuvre of German genre cinema in its 2025 retrospective, which features 15 titles — cult classics and curios from both East and West Germany — that prove that German film could also be “wild,...

Some things in life are simply too wholesome to disparage. Mr. Rogers is one, “Wallace & Gromit” is another, and if one were to pick a third example, it would be all too easy to turn towards just one of Britain’s seemingly abundant animated bears. For our purposes, the bear in question is none other than Paddington Brown, whose status as a symbol of friendliness par excellence had been firmly cemented into the new millennium thanks to Paul King’s duology of live-action films.

Naturally, any filmmaker scaling such unparalleled heights as “Paddington 2” would see fit to close the chapter on this pop-up book and leave things on the highest of notes, and technically speaking, King has; now, it’s first-time director Dougal Wilson who’s been selected to close out this trilogy with “Paddington in Peru.” As you’ve probably surmised from the title, this newest film promises...

A few months ago, legendary director and cinematic gatekeeper Martin Scorsese shared a recommendation for the horror film I Saw the TV Glow. Now, Scorsese has taken a moment to hype up another horror film, and this time it was The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman writer/director Robert Eggers‘ remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu.

An unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the original Nosferatu has the following synopsis: In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

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Nosferatu is coming — the hit gothic horror movie was released on Christmas Day, and landed VOD platforms last month. It’s available to rent or buy on streaming services like Prime Video and Apple TV.

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Fans of physical media can pick up the Blu-ray when it releases on Feb. 18, or pre-order it now. It’s available on 4K Uhd Blu-ray, HD Blu-ray,...

Horror, historically, has been a genre that allows female characters to shine and take the spotlight. Final girls are one of the most used and well-recognized tropes of the genre, and in many slasher films, women are the last ones standing thanks to their most common sense and survival instinct. One of the latest female leads who took the horror genre by storm was Ellen Hutter in Robert Egger’s latest film Nosferatu.

Ellen and her connection to the vampire was the central focus of the film, putting a unique spin on a centuries-old story. That wasn’t the first time Eggers wrote and directed a well-crafted female lead, however. His debut film The Witch back in 2015 gave audiences Thomasin, a girl who started the film powerless and ended up becoming the very thing her family feared. Robert Eggers and actresses Anya Taylor Joy and Lily-Rose Depp created two of...

Werner Herzog has his next narrative feature since 2019’s “Family Romance, LLC” lined up, and it’ll star two sister actresses who have never worked together onscreen before.

Deadline reports Kate and Rooney Mara will star in “Bucking Fastard,” Herzog’s upcoming film about two inseparable twin sisters who live on the fringes of society. Herzog will write and direct the film, with Ariel Leon Isacovitch and Agnes Chu producing, along with Andrea Bucko and Emanuele Moretti via Cobalt Sky Motion Picture Group.

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There's a certain kind of magic to seeing real life siblings sharing the screen. Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Donnie Darko. Chris and Luke Hemsworth in Thor: Ragnarok. Macaulay and Kieran Culkin in Home Alone. And soon to be joining that niche but ever eye-catching canon are Rooney and Kate Mara. Per Deadline's reporting, the sisters — stars of Carol and Black Mirror respectively — are set to lead Bucking Fastard, the latest movie from mellifluous German auteur Werner Herzog.

Despite their prolific screen careers, Emmy nominee Kate and two-time Oscar nomineee Rooney have never actually shared the screen with one another before. As such, Bucking Fastard — which Herzog is set to direct from a self-penned script — will be a first for the starring siblings, who are set to play twins here. While little has been confirmed regarding the plot for this one, with Deadline only stating that the sisters Mara will...

“Bubble & Squeak” (2025) is an absurd marriage drama that puts companionship under a microscopic lens. It does that in a script filled with outlandish elements that seem straight out of a children’s book. Imagine a kid letting their imagination run wild and writing down every idea that popped into their head the moment it did. That’s how a lot of its gags sound. The film shows a European officer (Matt Berry) offering his unmistakable Werner Herzog impression and expecting his subordinates to speak only in English as they walk through the forest, looking for a couple accused of smuggling cabbages in a country where they are illegal.

The couple in question, Declan (Himesh Patel) and Delores (Sarah Goldberg) is an oddball duo. Declan is thoroughly analytical and looks at things so clinically that he sucks the life out of them. Delores is full of life and a sense of wonder.

Sisters Rooney and Kate Mara are teaming up for their first movie together!

On Wednesday (February 5), it was announced that the famous sisters will be playing sisters in the new movie Bucking Fastard, written and directed by German filmmaker Werner Herzog.

According to Deadline, the movie is based on “the true story of inseparable twin sisters Joan and Jean, who live on the fringes of society.”

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This marks the first time that Rooney, 39, and Kate, 41, will be working together on a project.

Just last week, it was announced that Kate will be starring alongside these two Emmy-winning actresses in Apple TV+’s upcoming psychological thriller series Imperfect Women.

If you missed it, the Mara sisters recently attended an event to support a cause very important to them!

It’s been six years since the last Werner Herzog drama, but Deadline reports that the director is ready to get back into the ring with Bucking Fastard, which will star real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara.

Surprisingly, this will be the first time the Maras have worked together. The film will tell the story of inseparable twin sisters, Joan and Jean, who live on the fringes of society. Production will kick off this spring in Ireland and Slovenia, with Herzog writing and directing.

Deadline’s report doesn’t mention it, but the film is believed to be based on the lives of Freda and Greta Chaplin, twin sisters who did everything together and even spoke simultaneously. They became famous in the early ’80s for being obsessed with their neighbour to such a degree that he took them to court. In his recent book, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memior,...

Hucking fell, here's some news we didn't expect. Prepare to stress about who you describe this movie to, because real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara are about to star as fictional sisters in a film with a title so delightfully dicey you’ll be afraid to say it around your gran. That's right, the pair are going to headline Bucking Fastard, the latest cinematic brainchild from the ever-enigmatic Herner Werzog - eh, sorry, Werner Herzog, a man who likes to straddle the line between existential crisis and fever dream, and occasionally, attempt to kidnap Baby Yoda. Deadline exclusively reported the news.

Dabbling in narrative filmmaking in-between his many documentaries, it was recently announced Werner Herzog was in production on his first animated feature, The Twilight World, based on his 2021 novel of the same name. Now we have another narrative project to add to his slate, one that comes with quite the intrigue in both cast and synopsis.

For the first time ever, Rooney and Kate Mara will star in a film together, Deadline reports. They’ll lead Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, which he is writing and directing. The film is based on the true story of inseparable twin sisters Joan and Jean, drawing from the lives of Freda and Greta Chaplin, who became sexually infatuated with their next-door neighbor and eventually received a restraining order. The title of the film, which begins production this spring in Ireland and Slovenia, is based on a simultaneous verbal slip the twins made in court.

Exclusive: Real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara are now looking to play fictional sisters as the two are set to star in Bucking Fastard, a new movie from Werner Herzog.

Herzog will write and direct the film, with Ariel Leon Isacovitch and Agnes Chu producing, along with Andrea Bucko and Emanuele Moretti of Cobalt Sky Motion Picture Group, and Clara Wu Tsai. Production is set to start this spring in Ireland and Slovenia.

The film is based on the true story of inseparable twin sisters Joan and Jean, who live on the fringes of society.

The film marks the first time the sisters have worked together. For Rooney, the two-time Oscar nominee was most recently seen in the Orion Pictures drama Women Talking from writer-director Sarah Polley. She is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.

Kate was most recently seen in the FX series Class of ’09...

Ask Ed Lachman about the use of color and the cinematographer provides a perfect layman’s primer in art education.

“Why are hospitals blue and green? Those are restful, peaceful colors. Why are fast food restaurants red and orange? Because those activate our passion and our appetite,” Lachman said in his laid-back, easygoing voice. “Theoreticians on painting, like Goethe in his book in 1810 or Josef Albers in the 1960s, have talked a lot about how color affects the viewer. It’s all very primitive and emotional and I love to play around with that.”

Lachman, for sure, plays with color, as well as four different film formats, in Pablo Larraín’ “Maria,” which depicts the final days of opera star Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie). The work has earned Lachman his fourth Oscar nomination, following nods for “Far From Heaven,” “Carol” and “El Conde.”

Renowned for his artful, adventurous lensing, Lachman recently...